October Quotes

October 1

God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem. But we are finite and He will not call us everywhere. And real needs are not far from us. —C. S. Lewis

October 2

It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me. —Martin Lloyd-Jones

October 3

The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance. —Oswald Chambers

October 4

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day. —John Bunyan

October 5

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. —Jonathon Edwards

October 6

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them. —Charles Spurgeon

October 7

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him. —C. S. Lewis

October 8

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves. —D. L. Moody

October 9

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified. —Leonard Ravenhill

October 10

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. —G. K . Chesterton

October 11

Anything God has ever done, he can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere, he can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, he can do for you. —A. W. Tozer

October 12

We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts. —George Whitefield

October 13

There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us. —Billy Graham

October 14

Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous. —Martin Lloyd-Jones

October 15

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all. —Oswald Chambers

October 16

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. —John Bunyan

October 17

God has so made man's heart that nothing can ever fill it but God himself. —Charles Spurgeon

October 18

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others. —C. S. Lewis

October 19

Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamorous gospel, but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!! —Leonard Ravenhill

October 20

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem. —G. K. Chesterton

October 21

In every Christian's heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility. —A. W. Tozer

October 22

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day. —George Whitefield

October 23

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith. —Billy Graham

October 24

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin. —Martin Lloyd-Jones

October 25

Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ. —Oswald Chambers

October 26

No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. —John Bunyan

October 27

A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him. —Jonathon Edwards

October 28

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you. —Charles Spurgeon

October 29

Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone - alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone. —Leonard Ravenhill

October 30

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid. —G. K. Chesterton

October 31

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety. —A. W. Tozer

Marj Lancaster